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Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt talked about LLMs.txt and markdown, with Mueller offering a surprising fact about the original purpose of LLMs.txt and also explaining why the proposed standards are have severe shortcomings. You will find more ideas in Google answers question about llms-author.txt for SEO. What Discovery Is And Why It Matters In […]
Google updated their site migration guidance to include new information about using the Search Console Change of Address tool for moving domain names. The Search Console Change of Address Tool Google Change Of Address tool is for helping site owners who are migrating a site from one domain to another domain. The tool helps Google […]
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about the curious circumstance of Search Console reporting thousands of URLs as indexed despite being blocked by robots.txt. Mueller helped explain how this happens and what to do about it. Content Indexed Despite Being Blocked By Robots.txt A Redditor asked for advice because Google Search Console was reporting more […]
Publishing more content used to be the closest thing SEO had to a guaranteed win. More pages meant more keyword variations covered, more long-tail entry points, and more statistical shots at ranking. That math worked in an era when search engines evaluated documents one at a time. It does not work the same way against […]
Microsoft is adding four new features to the Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance dashboard preview: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare. All four are beginning to roll out globally. Three of the features were previewed at SEO Week. This is the official preview rollout. What’s New Citation Share shows your site’s percentage of all citations […]
TL;DR: I ran a small experiment to try and get some insight into whether large language models actually parse schema markup or are just nodding politely in its direction. I put a fake company address (inside beautifully invalid JSON-LD, on a page about ducks) into the head of an HTML document, mentioned no address anywhere […]
On a recent Search Off the Record podcast, hosts John Mueller and Martin Splitt pushed back on the idea promoted by AI SEOs that stripped-down, content-only versions are a better way to optimize for AI Search. They made the case that all the things AI SEOs want to remove are actually useful for ranking. Non-Content […]
Ahrefs analyzed logs from 137,000 domains and found 97% of llms.txt files got zero requests. No bots, no humans. The analysis used Ahrefs data to identify user agents fetching files. Around 28% of 137,000 domains publish an llms.txt file, but since Ahrefs’ customers are more technical, the actual adoption on the broader web is likely […]
Google’s John Mueller argued that LLM systems can’t use files like llms.txt to decide which websites to surface for a given query. He made the comments on a recent episode of Search Off the Record, the podcast from Google’s Search Relations team. His comment points to a broader signal problem, not just intentional gaming. Even […]
Google announced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a new open specification for organizing and exchanging the knowledge that AI systems need in order to perform useful work. You will find more ideas in stripe projects opens cloud infrastructure buying to AI. The announcement explains the reason for developing this new specification: “As foundation models continue […]